at a wrong place. An unguent composed of Madhuka, Eranda roots, Manjisthá, Yava, Tila, honey and clarified butter pasted together, should be thickly plastered over the affected part until the ulcers are perfectly healed; after which the lobules of the ears should be again pierced through according to the directions laid down before.
The lint should be removed, each third day, and a thicker one should be inserted in its stead on each successive occasion, and the part should be rubbed with (unboiled oil) as before. For the expansion of the fissures, (sticks of Nimba or Apamárga, or rods of lead) should be inserted into them after the subsidence of the accompanying symptoms and deranged bodily humours (in the locality).
Metrical Text:—The fissures thus expanded may ultimately bifurcate the lobules of the ears owing to the effects of the deranged bodily humours (Dosha), or of a blow. Now hear me discourse on the mode of adhesioning them (with suitable bandages).
These unions or adhesions admit of being briefly divided into fifteen different kinds, viz., the Nemi-sandhánaka, the Utpala-Bhedyaka the Valluraka, the Ásangima, the Ganda-karna, the Áháryaya, the Nirve-dhima, the Vyáyojima, the Kapáta-sandhika, the Ardha-kapáta-sandhika, the Samkshipta, the Hina-karna, the Vallikarna, the Yasthi-karna, and the Kákaushthaka.
